Bible verses about "abstinence" | Godbey

¹³ Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you, except that which is human: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make a way of escape, in order that you may be able to bear it.

²¹ lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, in a manner like unto them committing fornication, and going after other flesh, present an example receiving the vengeance of eternal fire.

² but on account of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

¹⁹ But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and things like unto these: which I tell you beforehand, as I did previously say to you, that those doing such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

⁵ Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own;

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

¹⁸ Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.

²² But fly from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, divine love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart.

⁴ Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication; ⁴ that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,